MALACAÑANG

Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

PROCLAMATION NO. 573

DECLARING MONDAY, MAY 8, 1995, AS SPECIAL DAY THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY

WHEREAS, Section 1, Article XVIII of the 1987 Constitution provides that the first elections of Members of the Congress shall be held on the second Monday of May, 1987;

WHEREAS, pursuant to the said Constitutional mandate, the elections for the Members of the Congress will be held on Monday, May 8, 1995;

WHEREAS, Monday, May 8, 1995, should be declared a special day to give the people the fullest opportunity to participate the said elections;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare, Monday, May 8, 1995, as special day throughout the country.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this

3rd

day of

May

, in the year of the Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety five.

(Sgd.)

FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President

(Sgd.) TEOFISTO T. GUINGONA, JR.